It has to happen sometime, brands don't last forever. Eventually, the name, "Macintosh" will be discontinued on favor of a different name.
When do you think this will happen?
When do you think this will happen?
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When do you think Apple will kill the Mac?
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Well I really do not know if it could eventually be discontinued... but if it is, I hope it is in a really long time...
There would be a huge uproar if the computer line was to drop. But just the name? It'd either be after Steve (like the other psycho who can spell said) or a big new thing from Steve. So yeah. 
After Steve
Or when something really really revolutionary and groundbreaking comes through that requires a new name! we can hope...
Well... it is that groundbreaking and revolutionary that i'll leave it up to steve to think about it...I have no idea.
I agree.
Mac and iPod are very strong brands, but let's not forget that Apple Computer was a major force in computers for most of a decade before the Mac was even a glimmer in the Steves' eyes. There's a whole generation of school kids in the 70s and 80s that will always remember the Apple ][, ][+ or //e as the first computer they ever encountered. The Apple brand will outlive Mac and iPod.
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We don't use Band-Aid over here...and we don't say Kleenex for every tissue brand...I also hear that you guys say Q Tip when you mean the same thing from any brand, while we don't.
We do say Hoover here, even though most people's vacuum cleaners are of different brands. Only a few years ago, Yahoo! was an incredibly strong brand, but now Google is a verb...
Gosh, I'm sorry, I voted, I'm participating in the thread, but it did strike me as a bit silly.
Can't we just use are computers as tools to accomplish what we need them to, and not worry about the branding they'll carry in 50 years?
Can't we just use are computers as tools to accomplish what we need them to, and not worry about the branding they'll carry in 50 years?
Well... it is that groundbreaking and revolutionary that i'll leave it up to steve to think about it...I have no idea.
What I mean is that even if it could teleport you wherever you want, the name 'mac' could be kept...
Yes, but it can also change... it just depends... but i will follow dukebound85's words, never say never.
Knowing Apple, I don't think they will kill the "Mac". I voted never, but I thought this thread was based on when apple will kill the Macintosh Computer, you might want to make it more clear that the poll is about the name, not about the actual computer.
Edit: im confused, are we talking about the computer or the name?
Edit: im confused, are we talking about the computer or the name?
I'm going to agree.
In conversation, when either talking about my own computer, or others asking questions, I don't have a "Powerbook" or an "Apple", I have a "Mac".
The name "Mac" is almost synonymous with Apple.
The line "Is that a Mac?", isn't asking about the branding model, it's asking if the computer device is made by Apple corp.
~Tyler
The Mac has already survived so much, and is now going from strength to strength. It was there at the birth of personal computers - and it'll be there to the end, and then beyond in the form of whatever comes next.
